Posted on 07/30/2021 6:45:57 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
The insurance companies handling the bankruptcy of the former Remington Arms Company made a $33 million bid this week to escape a specious lawsuit leveled by families of Sandy Hook victims.
Remington’s proposed settlement would provide $3.66 million to relatives of each of the nine victims in the lawsuit, according to Reuters. Even if the families take the offer, any settlement in the case must first be approved by the judge overseeing Remington’s bankruptcy case in Alabama.
Big Green has been fighting this lawsuit for years. Families of nine of the victims of the 2012 massacre brought the case shortly after the incident, but the Connecticut Supreme Court did not rule until 2019 that Remington could not be held liable for selling its AR-type Bushmaster rifle the murderer used to kill 20 children and six adults.
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The manufacturer is far, far removed from any cause in this case.
Essentially, the case says "guns are bad". Anyone who manufactures them is responsible for any thing bad done with them.
It is pure insanity.
Remington is dead to me...
It wasn’t Remington who did this. It was their insurer.
And yeah, I do not put it past the alphabet agencies to concoct another mass shooting or two to achieve these ends.
This sets a dangerous precedent
Do car manufacturers pay out to people killed by someone driving their cars?
Clearly, it is the Federal government’s fault. They engaged in reckless marketing and should have known that criminal invaders would be lured by an open borders policy and a lack of any law enforcement.
This creates an untenable precedent for all product manufacturers relative to potential misuse of a system or device.
You make an excellent point, and I have argued for years that Lanza committed murder to get his hands on that gun. But facts don’t matter anymore.
If the gun operated as it should have, then the manufacturer should not be guilty of anything. Now if it goes off by accident and due to a manufacturing issue and harms someone, then they should be liable.
The insurance company offered the money. Not Remington.
Only if it was a "sports" type vehicle that appeared to be like a race car, which would trick the owner into breaking the law with it.
Not necessarily. This is the offer from the insurance company. Not Remington
Unless you’re manufacturing vaccines, of course. Then nobody can be held liable. I guess it’s because it kills so many more people that no pharma company could possibly withstand the litigation.
$andy Hook$ folk$ have been getting million$ here and million$ there for year$. Why?
For years, CBS news does a scroll of top major cities and the high and low temperatures. They added Sandy Hook, like it was LA, NYC, Miami, or a state capital. Just trying to subliminally keep the name in our heads.
“Lanza attended Sandy Hook Elementary School for four and a half years. He began at Newtown Middle School in 2004, but according to his mother was ‘wracked by anxiety’. She told friends that her son started getting upset at middle school because of frequent classroom changes during the day. The movement and noise was too stimulating and made him anxious. At one point his anxiety was so intense that she took him to the emergency room at Danbury Hospital.”
“At age 14, he went to Newtown High School, where he was named to the honor roll in 2007. Students and teachers who knew him in high school described Lanza as ‘intelligent but nervous and fidgety’. He avoided attracting attention and was uncomfortable socializing. He is not known to have had any close friends in school. Schoolwork often triggered his underlying sense of hopelessness and by 2008, when he turned 16, he was only going to school occasionally....He was taken out of high school and home-schooled by his mother and father. He earned a GED. In 2008 and 2009, he also attended some classes at Western Connecticut State University.”
“Lanza presented with developmental challenges before the age of three. These included communication and sensory difficulties, socialization delays, and repetitive behaviors. He was seen by the New Hampshire Birth to Three intervention program and referred to special education preschool services. Once at elementary school, he was diagnosed with a sensory-integration disorder. Sensory-processing disorder does not have official status by the medical community as a formal diagnosis but is a common characteristic of autism. His anxiety affected his ability to attend school and in 8th grade he was placed on ‘homebound’ status, which is reserved for children who are too disabled, even with supports and accommodations, to attend school.”
“When he was 14, his parents took him to Yale University’s Child Study Center, where he was also diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). He frequently washed his hands and changed his socks 20 times a day, to the point where his mother did three loads of laundry a day. He also sometimes went through a box of tissues in a day because he could not touch a doorknob with his bare hand.”
“Lanza appears to have had no contact with mental health providers after 2006. The report from the Office of the Child Advocate stated: ‘In the course of Lanza’s entire life, minimal mental health evaluation and treatment (in relation to his apparent need) was obtained. Of the couple of providers that saw him, only one — the Yale Child Study Center — seemed to appreciate the gravity of (his) presentation, his need for extensive mental health and special education supports, and the critical need for medication to ease his obsessive-compulsive symptoms’.”
“Investigators found Lanza was fascinated with mass shootings, such as the Columbine High School massacre, the Virginia Tech shooting and the Northern Illinois University 2008 shooting. Among the clippings found in his room, there was a story from The New York Times about a man who shot at schoolchildren in 1891. His computer contained two videos of gunshot suicides, movies that showed school shootings and two pictures of Lanza pointing guns at his own head. It was also claimed that he had edited Wikipedia articles about mass murderers.”
“This only came to light after Lanza died, because he never permitted others to access his bedroom, including his mother. Lanza had also taped over the windows with black plastic garbage bags to block out sunlight. He had cut off contact with both his father and brother in the two years before the shooting and at one point communicated with his mother, who lived in the same house, only by email.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting#Perpetrator
This is about the $andy Hook fundraising operation:
“Do car manufacturers pay out to people killed by someone driving their cars?”
Lets sue GM the next time some idiot gets into a road rage incident.
This says that say Tide can be sued if some kid eats their product and dies.
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